• 12 December 2025

Dear all, 

We would like to invite you to attend an online cross-division Campfire meeting on 17 December 2025 at 11:00 CET organized by the EGU Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Volcanology (GMPV) and Soil System Sciences (SSS) Divisions:

Mineralogy Meets Soil Science: Remediation, Weathering Processes and Interactions

Register to the Event here: https://www.egu.eu/webinars/687/gmpv-sss-campfire-mineralogy-meets-soil-science-remediation-weathering-processes-and-interactions/

Please feel free to share this link and registration.

We are happy to share that we will have four presentations during the campfire: 

Ewa Stępień, University of Krakow: Zeolites and apatites to immobilize As(V) from the soil systems Fluid-mineral mediated formation of mimetite Pb₅(AsO₄)₃Cl for efficient arsenate removal from water using Pb-modified zeolite.

Błażej Cieślik, University of Wrocław: Nickel pathways during ex situ mineral carbonation of serpentinized peridotites: Implications, advantages, and challenges. 

Xavier Dupla, ETH Zurich, Back to the future of Enhanced Rock Weathering: a little agronomic journey in time

Thiago Inagaki, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, C-Persistence Across Scales: Leveraging Organo-Mineral Associations and Management to Build Climate-Resilient Soils.

This event is organized by:

Bartosz Puizo, Mariane Boulanger 

Marcus Schiedung, Beatrice Giannetta and Diana Vieira  

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